Thanks to all who are responsible for the latest puppy 3.01. I'm enjoying it very much.

However, as a new user who's trying to make the transition from windows to linux, I would very much like to see a wpa encryption setup that doesn't involve my having to mess with the wpa_supplicant.conf file. I still haven't figured it out, but I'm hoping that any new releases will have this improvement.

I don't know how the sequence is to present this list when booting, but I would prefer to have the list in alphabetical order._________________Time savers:
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Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2008, 00:04 Post_subject:
rc.shutdown suggestionSub_title: Add code to swapoff any swapfile left open before the last busybox umount all.

My case is probably not unique. I am running from a USB stick with a swap file on a HD. Because my devices are static I put a mount statement for the swap file device in rc.local followed by a swapon /mnt/hxx1/pup.swp statement. Cool. Now I have an automatic swapfile brought up at startup. I could build an desktop link to a script to swapoff and umount (Actually I did this) but then I'd have to remember to pop that button before hitting reboot or shutdown.
If I read it correctly, rc.shutdown does a universal umount as it's last act but if the swapfile is still "on" I get a disk error complaining about the partition table when trying to restart..apparently has no consequence but I get nervous when I see HD error messages about partition tables.
The code to find an existing swapfile and swapoff it, would seem to be a relative easy addition right before the busybox umount statement in rc.shutdown. (I guess this presumes there is an easy way to find the *.swp file location) That way if a swap file were inadvertently left on at shutdown it would get turned off before the swap device was unmounted or more probably actually not unmounted before power off.
In my case since I know the location of my pup.swp swapfile I just hard coded a swapoff for that file into rc.shutdown and viola fixed. Not elegant but it works.

I freaking want to use my .bashrc file!
Can we somehow, please, get the console to be preset to bash?
Or perhaps just have a way that .bashrc is used?

It seems like I have to hack all the GUI features to use that file.
Otherwise, I would have to type "bash" everytime I want to use it.

3) The help file

What's the possibility of making a more professional help file?
Perhaps something with frames?

4) WMA format for gxine

Can we get a WMA plug-in for that? Perhaps some kind of advice where to get it?

5) Internet connection sharing wizard

This would be awesome. I think I saw that ecomoney made something. But if it could also involve using a wireless device as a host and sending the transmission to a client via ethernet, then it would make things so much more awesome.

I don't know if people just get sick and tired of hearing this but I think it would be mighty cool if better support for toshiba laptops was added in the next release...

I got most features working on my Portege 4010 and the ones that don't work yet are not working coz i didn't bother to fix them.

But indeed, it would be nice to have FnFX and Powernowd installed by default or available as Dotpups. I would make them myself but i don't know how._________________Toshi Portege 4010 | PIII Tualatin 933MHz | 512MB RAM | Cyberblade 16MB | 30GB | WiFi, IrDA | ~5 hrs runtime | WinMe |

Posted: Wed 19 Mar 2008, 01:22 Post_subject:
rastapaxSub_title: i work in a new icon pack

I am working on a set of icons to improve the interface without increasing weight if puppy

Is my small contribution

PS? You can make a logo or something interesting that although not much a greeting something ....
For example, when you put ubuntu do not see numbers while loading time icons or percentages
During his instalcion
To think that there is a puppy OS that installs and installs easily and that would be a plus
''Or not
I am not an expert on linux user's basic love make it accessible and friendly

For Puppy 3.02 (Chihuahua):- I have a Canon i965 printer, not supported by Gutenprint etc, so I have to use Canon's own driver. In 2 and 3 series Puppy, Abiword and GIMP will not print. But in Dingo a7 Abiword does. Can this feature be backported to 3.02? And if I get GIMP working in Dingo that may work too.

Please put "Booting Puppy xyz" immediately above the "Choose a pup-save file" line at boot-up. I use live cd, and sometimes have to extract the cd to see which one I'm booting.

Sure would be an easy way to double check what CD you are running before selecting an appropriate .2fs (or upgrading something you didn't want to upgrade) for us with several pup_saves available on HD and/or USB.